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JoseBalow

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12. This is the best suggestion

Reply to Marcuse (Reply #1)

Sat May 10, 2025, 03:32 PM

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What can I do with my mother's mink stole from the 1960s-early 60s?? [View all] CTyankee May 2025 OP

Give it a proper burial? Marcuse May 2025 #1

This is the best suggestion JoseBalow May 2025 #12

That was the first thing that I thought of too. Bury it really deep to delay methane emissions for a while. FadedMullet May 2025 #26

kitty bed quaint May 2025 #2

My sister took my mother's mgardener May 2025 #3

Thanks. I'll check with my housekeeper next week and if she doesn't want it I'll take it Goodwill. CTyankee May 2025 #5

Some people buy them because they like vintage clothing, so Goodwill might be a good place to donate. Vinca May 2025 #4

I doubt that it was by a top designer, but your point is well taken. CTyankee May 2025 #7

Some ideas... Tanuki May 2025 #6

I like the teddy bears as a "cherished memory" ! Hekate May 11 #34

Keep it, as 'memory.' elleng May 2025 #8

I'm going to give my grandkids a crack at it. CTyankee May 2025 #13

When my great-aunt died somehow I ended up yorkster May 2025 #9

First, check that it's in usable shape. LisaM May 2025 #10

Yes, it is in fine shape. CTyankee May 2025 #11

Donate it to a local community theater. They will add it to costume department. FloridaBlues May 2025 #14

As already suggested in posts 10 and 14, give it to an amateur theater group... 3catwoman3 May 2025 #15

I doubt Yale Drama School would want/need it but I have a another New Haven college I could give it to.... CTyankee May 2025 #16

Give it to your housekeeper. She could sell it online. applegrove May 2025 #17

I donated all of my old clothes (from Grandma and others in the past) to a local clothing shop that outfitted SWBTATTReg May 2025 #18

Not sure you can see these things as anything but a relic from past practices of wearing an animal's skin and fur that CTyankee May 2025 #20

And you think that the things I had donated somehow were actually fur? What gave you that idea? My grandma was SWBTATTReg May 2025 #23

Sorry, I mistakenly thought your post somehow had that connection to fur and that was what I had on my mind when I CTyankee May 2025 #30

Release it back into the wild Bayard May 2025 #19

I actually could do that but I wouldn't since it was my mother's. CTyankee May 2025 #21

.... Bayard May 2025 #22

I have a friend who collects and wears them. Phoenix61 May 2025 #24

Donate it to an animal shelter. flvegan May 2025 #25

AWW, newborn kittens in mink fur! Sweet image! I love it! CTyankee May 2025 #31

Offer it to a high school drama club. NT mahatmakanejeeves May 2025 #27

Agreedf. soldierant May 2025 #32

Sell it to a vintage kacekwl May 2025 #28

We have an actual store not far from here. underpants May 2025 #29

my cousin gave me a really nice stole. too pretty. i ebayed it. i got pelts from an estate sale(bag of faces-cat toys) pansypoo53219 May 11 #33

I like Tanuki's teddy bear idea best of all 💕 Hekate May 11 #35